Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J. Hron Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Knowledge and strategic management Abstract: The article summarizes recent developments in the field of knowledge management and its vital influence on strategic management. Knowledge has become a resource of key importance with regard to the competitive advantage of a business. It thus strengthens the resource-based view of competitive advantage and develops it further by providing guidelines for developing, storing, and sharing knowledge within a business with the use of the concept of organisational learning. Tacit and explicit knowledge is distinguished in order to differentiate their contribution towards the competitiveness of a business. Based on these developments major trends affecting current development of strategic management are defined as well as recommendations drawn from the experience of leading subjects in the field. Keywords: knowledge and strategic management, competence, organisation, information systems Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 101-106 Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.17221/5001-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5001-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200603-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:52:y:2006:i:3:id:5001-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J. Havlíček Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: J. Hron Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: I. Tichá Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Knowledge based higher education Abstract: While data and/or information based education was built on pedagogic, psychology, philosophy of science and didactic disciplines, the new dimension of knowledge based education will involve new disciplines such as Knowledge Management, Epistemology, Systems Theory, Artificial Knowledge Management Systems, Value Theory and Theory of Measurement. It is often assumed that data, information and knowledge are depicted as a pyramid. The data, the most plentiful type, are at the bottom, information, produced from data, is above it and knowledge, produced from information through the hard work of refining or mining, above it. This schema satisfies specific needs of an organisation of warehouse data systems but it does not explain the role of these objects in the educational process. In education, the distinctions among data, information and knowledge need to be distinguished from the complex pedagogical point of view. Knowledge is the engine asking for more information and more data. Knowledge life cycle produces more information, more information asks for more data - that is: there is "just information". Data, information and knowledge can be considered as object oriented measures assigned to real objects (entities). The following measures can be assigned to the objects: Measure of the zero order - name. Measure of the first order - data. Measure of the second order - information. Metrics of the third order - knowledge. Knowledge based curriculum involves knowledge into study plans and it considers knowledge as a distinctive part of study. Knowledge becomes the engine starting cycle of new information acquisition, reproduction and integration. The following problems have to be solved in building of knowledge based curriculum: Methodology and organisation of educational process. Technical support for knowledge based education. Evaluation and assessment of the process. Keywords: data, information, knowledge, knowledge life cycle, measures and measuring, knowledge mining and elicitation, k-based curriculum Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 107-116 Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.17221/5002-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5002-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200603-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:52:y:2006:i:3:id:5002-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J. Tvrdoň Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Human capital and modelling of its development Abstract: The paper deals with the relation between education, as pivotal characteristics of capital, and efficiency of school work-places with use of production modelling. A starting analytic tool is a determination of school facilities efficiency according to an efficiency matrix from which it results that also schools with a lower volume of resources per a student can significantly contribute to human capital development. Transformation of these sources into knowledge is expressed by a production function of education in which results of students are an endogenous variable in dependence on school resources, qualification level of students' families, school-mates' level, previous results of students and their effort. The course of the production function and its shape depends on many factors and economy of scale determined in the paper. Keywords: education economy, human capital, modelling, production function in education Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 117-122 Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.17221/5003-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5003-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200603-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:52:y:2006:i:3:id:5003-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J. Ryska Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: A. Valder Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Is valuation of property a real science? Abstract: The evaluation of property is one of the basic human professions that have accompanied the human race ever since money was first used. At the time of the formation of modern science, this discipline was not included among the economic sciences. The stipulation of the value of property was based not only on theoretical knowledge of the economics, knowledge of goods, technology, agriculture and law, but also practical skills, knowledge of markets and the art of correctly assessing the requirements of customers. This situation continued until the end of the last millennium, when the evaluation of property stood apart from official science and was presented as an activity that links science and art and for this reason it was not possible to include it among the scientific disciplines. There is given analysis of value and valuation of property. On the base of philosophical approach to value and process of valuation, it can be stated that Valuation is a science in terms which in modern science have meaning. This would enable surveyors to participate also in the promotion of their profession on the academic floor and thus have more influence on the general opinion of value and its influence on contemporary society. Keywords: valuation, science, price, value Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 123-127 Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.17221/5004-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5004-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200603-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:52:y:2006:i:3:id:5004-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: I. Boháčková Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Structural changes of incomes of agricultural producers based on knowledge approach Abstract: The paper is focused on the actual problems of agricultural producers' incomes. Currently these become one of the monitored descriptors of maintaining of social stability in agriculture and in the countryside. There is not judged the height and the income development in the article, but the attention is paid to their structure. Concretely, the relation between incomes, which come from the entrepreneurial activity of producers, and the supports, which farmers get in the frame of the Common Agrarian Policy, is monitored. The aim is to draw attention to the possibility of a certain future disproportion towards strengthening of subsidiary means in the total incomes, which could dampen the own entrepreneurial activities. At the same time, it is necessary in this context to solve also methodological aspects of income level monitoring in agriculture. The European Union (Eurostat) makes available several variants of monitoring. Nevertheless, it is essential that the methodology was unambiguous and transparent, so that the incomes in agrarian sector could be unambiguously quantified. Last but not least, the attention is called to a strong influence of the knowledge approach within fulfillment of the European agricultural model. Keywords: agrarian sector, incomes of agricultural producers, subsidiary means, methodology of income monitoring, income structure, knowledge approach to fulfillment of European agricultural model Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 128-132 Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.17221/5005-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5005-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200603-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:52:y:2006:i:3:id:5005-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Michálek Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: P. Rymešová Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: L. Müllerová Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: H. Chamoutová Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Author-Name: K. Chamoutová Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: The negotiation position amid member states of the EU Abstract: The European integration process is very important and it has been paid attention to for the last 15 years. The abstract deals with the negotiation field and position in the structure of the current expanded EU. For better orientation in this equivocal situation, a modern cartography method of relationship in the arbitrary group called dynamic sociometry was used. The method is based on classical sociometry Morena and furthermore it uses the instrument of fuzzy set, typology and structural analysis. The output of this method is a sociomap. The map holds information on the relative closeness or the distance of individual elements, their configuration but also some quality information. The graphic chart is similar to a topographic map. In our case, the sociomap was created from the data of foreign business among the member countries. The following analysis of the sociomap we detected and described characteristic features of the analysed group. It consists of formal and informal links in the group, the role and the position of each member within the group, the structure and relations in the group. In the concrete, we attained data to answer the questions about the present climate in interrelationships in the EU, which means the relationships among the members as the whole entities but also the relationships separately among members themselves. The position analysis of the Czech Republic in the system of the created sociomaps was considered as very important. According to the allocation of the Czech Republic in sociomaps, we easily defined the position of the state, the closest partners for negotiation, and also the possible problem relations which might complicate the negotiation in the EU. From the resultant sociomaps, we also tried to determine the sociometric star, i.e. the leader of the European Community. We anticipated that it would be rather an aggregation of several states than an individual state. The contribution focuses on the negotiation field and position in the structure of the current expanded EU. The sociomap created using foreign business data of member states gives the bases for answering questions about present climate in interrelationships in the EU which means the relationships between the members as whole entities but also the relationships separately between the members themselves. Keywords: position, negotiation, the EU, dynamic sociometry, sociometry Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 133-137 Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.17221/5006-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5006-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200603-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:52:y:2006:i:3:id:5006-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: J. Vaníček Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Software and data quality Abstract: The paper presents new ideas in the International SQuaRE (Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation) standardisation research project, which concerns the development of a special branch of international standards for software quality. Data can be considered as an integral part of software. The current international standard and technical report of the ISO/IEC 9126, ISO/IEC 14598 series and ISO/IEC 12119 standard covert the whole software as an indivisible entity. However, such data sets as databases and data stores have a special character and need a different structure of quality characteristic. Therefore it was decided in the SQuaRE project create a special international standard for data quality. The main idea for this standard and the critical discussion of these ideas is presented in this paper. The main part of this contribution was presented on the conference Agricultural Perspectives XIV, aligned by Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, September 20 to 21, 2005. Keywords: software quality, data quality, international standardization, project SQuaRE Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 138-146 Volume: 52 Issue: 3 Year: 2006 DOI: 10.17221/5007-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5007-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200603-0007.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:52:y:2006:i:3:id:5007-AGRICECON